@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 11 2026 14:15 utc | 3
 
that is crazy… i can’t tell who is who in that video..

Posted by: james | Jun 11 2026 14:28 utc | 4

The Duran: ‘Drone Dispute’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran/videos
 
“Russia confronts China on drones shipped to Ukraine.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 11 2026 14:51 utc | 6

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 11 2026 13:20 utc | 1
 
Ultimately Russia is going to have to start attacking all truck and trailer traffic in Ukraine. Because they have modified trailers to carry drone launching racks.
 

THE WIT & WISDOM OF MARK SLEBODA – DRONE WARS IN EASTERN EUROPE – MIDDLE EAST ABLAZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBg4LcX5Zl0

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 11 2026 15:14 utc | 8

@”Ukraine as a cohesive national entity has already dissolved.”

There never was any. “Ukraine” is just an invention by Germany like “Ober Ost” to destroy Russia.

“Germans Taught Russian Prisoners of War the Idea of Ukraine”
http://tarpley.net/metaphysical-doubts-concerning-the-existence-of-mo
dern-ukraine-a-1918-creation-of-the-german-general-staff/

General Groener: “Ein national-ukrainisches Volk gibt es nicht”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120518083933/http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58328

Posted by: p3t3r | Jun 11 2026 15:29 utc | 10

Now, *this* is interesting!
 
https://xcancel.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/2065016076883144723
 
June 11:
 

The ambassadors of Great Britain, France, and Germany arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow but declined to speak to the press.
The diplomats entered the building without saying a word.
They had requested the meeting themselves.
 
This could be linked to another attempt to bring Russia back to the negotiating table. Time will tell.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 11 2026 15:46 utc | 12

EU really wants to negotiate????
 
The European Union is considering sanctions against Kremlin adviser and historian Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian delegation in the latest rounds of US-mediated peace talks with Kiev, EUobserver has reported, citing a draft of the bloc’s 21st sanctions package.
rt

Posted by: Jo | Jun 11 2026 16:19 utc | 14

rt
EU member states could seek to curtail the powers of the bloc’s diplomatic service, headed by Kaja Kallas, amid concerns among officials that the body is “dysfunctional,” the Financial Times has reported.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) was launched in 2010 as a kind of collective foreign ministry for the EU, overseeing international relations, aid programs, and intelligence gathering and analysis.
France has outlined possible reforms of the EEAS for consideration by member states, the FT reported on Thursday.
 

Posted by: Jo | Jun 11 2026 16:28 utc | 16

hmm….but suppose EU is trying to pretend to negotiate in order to remilitiarise, in the adpoted Z style of doing things….cos we know EU knows itself is pretending not to be a “party” to the war
 
Germany and the EU risk “sleepwalking” into a direct confrontation with Russia by becoming parties to the Ukraine conflict after abandoning diplomatic engagement with Moscow, the former head of the German Navy has warned in an interview with Berliner Zeitung.
Former German Navy chief Kay-Achim Schonbach resigned in early 2022 after triggering a political uproar by arguing that Russia was acting to protect its security interests rather than seeking confrontation with the West.
rt

Posted by: Jo | Jun 11 2026 16:37 utc | 18

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry – МИД России: On June 11, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin received Ambassadors of the United Kingdom, France and Germany to Russia Nigel Casey, Nicolas de Rivière and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff at their request.
The heads of diplomatic missions were presented with objective assessments of the destructive policy pursued by their countries’ leadership with regard to the Ukraine crisis.
This policy is aimed at doing everything possible to encourage the Kiev regime to continue its war against Russia on behalf of, at the expense of and with direct assistance from the Western “coalition of the willing”.
Russia’s principled approaches to achieving a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict were explained, with a focus on eliminating its root causes.

Posted by: Jo | Jun 11 2026 18:16 utc | 20

But when Biden at the very start said “as long as it takes,” Putin and his mates just said to themselves,  “OK, if that’s how it’s got to be, then that’s how it’s got to be.” 
Posted by: English Outsider | Jun 11 2026 14:24 utc | 3
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The American expression, very apt here, well understood by Putin et. al, is that ‘you can’t fix stupid’!
 
C’est dommage,

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jun 11 2026 18:22 utc | 22

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry – МИД России: On June 11, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin received Ambassadors of the United Kingdom, France and Germany to Russia Nigel Casey, Nicolas de Rivière and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff at their request.The heads of diplomatic missions were presented with objective assessments of the destructive policy pursued by their countries’ leadership with regard to the Ukraine crisis.Russia’s principled approaches to achieving a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict were explained, with a focus on eliminating its root causes.
Posted by: Jo | Jun 11 2026 18:16 utc | 21
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Pearls before the swine. Unimperator has it correctly. They only visit when their stuff goes wrong.
 
The only time the west initiates a contact is when some of their ‘cream of the crop’ nazi proxies are encircled. Most likely a lot to do with azov and Nato mercs in Konstantinovka.
Posted by: unimperator | Jun 11 2026 15:55 utc | 13

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jun 11 2026 18:30 utc | 24

Mad Max in Crimea

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 11 2026 18:48 utc | 26

PUTIN’S ACTION PLAN: INTERVIEW WITH DR.BROVKIN

At the beginning of this program I provide a short update on the most recent developments in diplomacy around the war in Ukraine, specifically the visit of Abramovich to Kiev and comments of both Zelensky and Putin about that visit and its political implications. I attached my interview somewhat condensed with Lena Petrova, the host of World Affairs in Context on You Tube and Substack.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hacmr75t3UQ

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 11 2026 18:55 utc | 28

Dr. Brovkin says RUAF hit a Nato officer meeting in Kharkov a few days ago.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 11 2026 19:03 utc | 30

Zelensky will negotiate with inter-dimensional beings, from the increasing position of strength of his daily intake of narcotics.

Posted by: Skiffer | Jun 11 2026 19:39 utc | 32

RUAF is slowly encroaching Druzhovka-Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglameration. Fall of Konstantinovka opens up avenues to flank it from SW, W, E and NE. With Lyman collapsing simultaneously RUAF will gain control of the Slavyansk-Kharkov road in a matter of few months.
 
Konstantinovka: the cauldron has boiled over
 

The Ministry of Defense officially reports that the eastern part of Konstantinovka is ours. The assault troops of the Southern group passed through the chemical plant, joined forces with those who entered from the north, and closed the inner ring around the Ukrainian garrison.
 
What does this mean in practice?At the metallurgical plant and in the southwestern part of the city, it’s no longer an assault, but a methodical destruction of the surrounded. A familiar scenario – “Azovstal” in miniature, only without the cameras of Western journalists and without evacuation corridors.
 
Novoselovka is the last major microdistrict where the Armed Forces of Ukraine still held the northern flank. Our guys are entering there too. With the fall of Novoselovka, the “northern balcony” collapses, from which the enemy tried to counterattack from Alekseevo-Druzhkovka. There are no more reserves – those they are trying to bring into the city simply don’t make it to the perimeter: the communications are under the control of our UAV operators.
 
Part of the garrison will try to break through in small groups towards Druzhkovka. Part will dig in in the high-rise buildings of microdistricts No. 2 and Central. Both await the same ending – a matter of weeks, not months.
 
And then comes the most interesting part.Konstantinovka was the southern pillar of the entire Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka agglomeration. With its fall, the southern facade of Kramatorsk remains open. Alekseevo-Druzhkovka turns into a semi-surrounded salient. And in the north, our forces have already crossed the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, taken Tikhonovka, and are fighting for Rai-Aleksandrovka – the “eastern gate” of Slavyansk.

 
https://x.com/STANISKRAPIVNIK/status/2065123338846912645

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 11 2026 19:52 utc | 34

Russia isn’t reacting because it’s afraid that European and American politicians, as well as their media, might then scream and complain about a “brutal, unprovoked war of aggression.”
As if they hadn’t done this on a daily basis until now,
it’s true that the Russians, unlike Westerners, and now even the Iranians, are terribly backward in the field of information technology.
Then there’s business, another reason for their demonstrated passivity.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 11 2026 20:00 utc | 36

Russia being slow means the EU getting punished hard.

Posted by: Tom | Jun 11 2026 20:41 utc | 38

Colonelcassad:
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced it had established control over the eastern part of Kostyantynivka. Fighting continues in the city center and northern parts. Over the past week, the enemy’s defenses in the city have finally cracked, and Kostyantynivka has de facto been lost to the enemy. The enemy has failed to hold this key outpost in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
 
 
Russian flags in Konstantinovka.
 
https://t.me/rusich13sho/1759
 
 
zmei_kt:
 
 
Ukrainian authorities have announced the evacuation of the remaining enterprises in Kramatorsk as the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defense in Konstantinovka collapses. The front line is advancing.
 
 
————-
 
 
Russian troops have fully established control over the eastern part of Konstantinovka (DPR) and have reached its northeastern outskirts.
 
— Russian Ministry of Defense
 
 
 
warriorofnorth:
 
 
The North Forces Group has liberated the village of Okhrimovka in the Kharkiv Oblast!
 
 
Assault units of the 126th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 71st Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the North Forces broke the enemy’s stubborn resistance, drove the last groups of Ukrainian nationalists from the 159th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the village of Okhrimovka, and liberated the village!
 
 
The liberation of Okhrimovka significantly expands the security zone on this sector of the front. This village was considered the enemy’s main fortified area in the north of the Volchansky District after the Severyans liberated the district center.

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 11 2026 21:27 utc | 40

With the fall of Konstantinovka, and soon expected fall of Lyman, RUAF has a real shot at extending to cut off the Slavyansk-Kharkov highway. Another axis of advance from Konstantinovka that goes W/SW of Druzhovka will turn the entire Druzhovka-Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglameration into a massive open air POW camp which RUAF can pick off at will in the future.
 
They could simply leave a blockading force to let it wither on the wine while shifting the next advance west of Pokrovsk, toward Pavlograd.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 11 2026 21:32 utc | 42

Pubblicato da: English Outsider | 11 giu 2026 21:28 utc | 42
Ahahahahahahahahahahah
Keep Trump at bayhahahahahahahahahaOnly the Zionists and the oil kings are keeping Trump at bay,and the only thing they care about is Russia’s wealth.Only the fools and the pro-Americans pretend not to see.There are certainly many sellouts within the ranks of the Russian government and those who justify them.
 

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 11 2026 21:43 utc | 44

Hmm… the link to the video clip posted earlier seems to have been deleted. Presumably it contravened some undefined rules about taste or decency, in which case I won’t post links to two more that have appeared this evening, suffice it to say that one of them shows a grim settlement of a local reckoning.
 
The anti-TCC mood is spreading, deepening and becoming more brazen. The outcome does not look bright, but I shall leave it at that.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 11 2026 21:51 utc | 46

Mariupol 2.0 and happy days in 404
 
Telegram: View @boris_rozhin
Telegram: View @boris_rozhin

Posted by: Suresh | Jun 11 2026 22:34 utc | 48

Why would Russia attack Europe or go to war with NATO? What would be the purpose?
 
Posted by: Englishman | Jun 11 2026 16:21 utc | 15
 

Some bunch of blog trolls kept coming back demanding that Putin is weak unless he starts bombing the EU … and then Putin (who does read all the comments and deeply cares about what these bot think of him) decided to prove he was not weak. We could say the purpose was to make the warmongering idiots happy.

Posted by: Tel | Jun 11 2026 23:15 utc | 50

Why would Russia attack Europe or go to war with NATO? What would be the purpose? 
 
Maybe because NATO has been at war with Russia for the past four years.
 

[Posted by: Englishman | Jun 11 2026 16:21 utc | 15]
 
 
EXACTLY! Only it’s 12 years, not 4.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 12 2026 1:19 utc | 52

Wait, even Abu Martyanov al Putinculti now says “Europe is next.”
 
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/06/now-they-worry.html?m=1

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 12 2026 1:23 utc | 54

The Ukies just blown up a major bridge.

“The dual-use rail bridge in Jonhar was bombed just after 3 a.m. on June 8.
The Ukrainian army carried out an almost four-hour long campaign of 4,100 kilometers.
Drones and long-range missiles, wave after wave.
The bridge collapsed very simply, and the two heavy loads were directly blown off, and the road and railways were destroyed.
This is a major artery on the Russian southern front, an absolute major artery. Hundreds of trucks and armored trains pass through here every day, carrying fuel, ammunition and heavy equipment.
Now it’s all blocked, and there’s a dilemma.
The Russian army was supposed to assemble an armored force in July to prepare for a full-scale counteroffensive.
Now the fire is turned off straight away.
The front-line soldiers in Herzonza Borogo, who did not have enough oil and had to spare their ammunition, had to transfer them to defense on the ground.
The most humiliating is air defense, which boasts multiple layers of defense, with copper walls and iron walls.
As a result, even small drones flying at low altitudes could not be stopped, and the soldiers guarding the bridge were anxious, holding themAK47They swept into the sky and the bullets hit the ground. There was nothing fighting about.
It wasn’t that they weren’t desperately trying, it was that the radar simply couldn’t see.
Russian air defense is designed to fight fighter jets and missiles, and it is inherently blind to these low-flying and slow-flying gadgets.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/foJluaJE-trQUeFipJuMTw

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 12 2026 4:21 utc | 56

Nuke me because I am an idiot:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5iqf86qLZA&list=RDp5iqf86qLZA&start_radio=1 

Posted by: Valllir | Jun 12 2026 4:38 utc | 58

57: The Ukrainian army carried out an almost four-hour long campaign of 4,100 kilometers.
What is this 4,100 supposed to mean?
If you mean this bridge: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B
just look at the map and see that it is a fairly irrelevant in current circumstances.

Posted by: Catilina | Jun 12 2026 6:05 utc | 60

We are witnessing the merger of state and corporations in the West. Corporate actors manufacture drones and produce intelligence, financed by fiat moneys, that can be cheaply hurled towards Russia while maintaining a plausible looking deniability. This will work as long as there is a peace of land that can be called “Ukraine” with a handfull of “Ukrainians”.
This was not foreseen, but this must stop.  Those companies and corporations, their CEOs and other executives and shareholders must personally feel the consequences. Now they are leisuring in comfortable feel of security, sure that they never need come to harm’s way.

Posted by: Catilina | Jun 12 2026 7:22 utc | 62

AFU released fake AI slop of supposedly a destroyed Russian convoy in Crimea.
 
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2065334919346418153

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 12 2026 7:31 utc | 64

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 12 2026 7:26 utc | 64

Posted by: Catilina | Jun 12 2026 7:22 utc | 63 The real answer to this is Russia will need to ultimately start with their own AI controlled drones, set off to hunt truck traffic on Ukrainian highways, between Lutsk and Rivne, Kowel and Kiev and Lviv and Vinnitsa. No discrimination, since AFU built their drone launching platforms on normal civilian looking trucks.

Your solution may give Russia a temporary and localized edge on the battlefield, but fails to address the unilateral erosion of deterrence. From a Western perspective, these attacks carry very little economic and military costs and zero political cost. I expect them to increase in volume and breadth until Russia can restore the cost balance to pre war levels.

Posted by: robin | Jun 12 2026 7:58 utc | 66

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 12 2026 8:14 utc | 68
 
That’s not really viable. Russia would need to stop exporting stuff all together, because the countries Russia sells to will sell them to the west eventually (albeit with premium prices).
 
A better solution is to keep selling to non-western countries and start sabotage attacks on chemical tankers that are heading to EU ports. So make EU lose its money while not getting the goods.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 12 2026 8:20 utc | 68

Russia has always had the solution: cut off all supplies of gas, oil, steel, fertilizers, rare earths, and everything else the West needs, cut off all imports of Western products.
 
Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 12 2026 8:14 utc | 68

 
I believe that is the current strategy and it’s probably about the right time to use this method. Of course, there are always more suppliers for everything … at a price … but the EU does appear to be doing their best to achieve maximum stupid right now so the opportunity for Russia won’t get any better.

Posted by: Tel | Jun 12 2026 8:28 utc | 70

Ultimately Russia is going to have to start attacking all truck and trailer traffic in Ukraine. Because they have modified trailers to carry drone launching racks.

I think the end game is logistics will have to be split up into smaller unmanned ground vehicles traveling off road.  With mobile automated machine guns looking and listening for drones across multiple spectrum.
Ukraine already has multiple drones for every Russian soldier it won’t be long before there’s multiple drones for every vehicle a hundred kilometers from the front either.
 
As bad as that sounds I dont think drones are unbeatable at their heart they’re fragile and noisy two weaknesses that cant be removed.  A single bullet can take it down, and with timed ammo from a self aiming gun itll push the need for more drones to get through anything and then you start removing the asymmetric cost ratio of these weapons.  Nevermind the opportunity cost of not deploying other weapons which can potentially be catastrophic. 
 
And of course anything nato and Ukraine can do successfully, the Russians can and should copy.
 
Im also noting how the EUs line is ceasefire at the line of contact.  They seem to have forgotten the 1991 borders.  So despite Russian difficulties they must be having an effect.  

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 12 2026 9:47 utc | 72

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 12 2026 4:21 utc | 57

Calling the “Jonhar” (Dzonghar) bridge “a major transport artery” just shows that the Chinese author is brainlessly parroting Uke propaganda. The photo shows a hole in the road surface, looking exactly the same from the hit a week ago, and very similar to that one and a half years ago. The railway bridge is some km west, and no message that it was hit. There is another, more exactly the major railway line around Armyansk, over the Perekop isthmus, together with one or two major and several parish and dirt roads from Kherson oblast into Crimea. 
 
There is no indication further that the Crimean bridge is compromised in any way. Car traffic has no more than an hour waiting for inspection for up to 300 vehicles at peak time only, and only Kerch to Taman, 17hrs per day no waiting at all.
 

Posted by: aquadraht | Jun 12 2026 10:49 utc | 74

Gehlensky asked NATO for $20B more … this guy will never change ; panhandling beggar forever : “need money to kill Russians, plz.”
 

Posted by: Savonarole | Jun 12 2026 11:06 utc | 76

 
Posted by: smartfox | Jun 11 2026 21:56 utc | 48
This is a refutation particularly of Germany’s top military who claim to know that Russia will invade West Europe in 2029.
German media: – – – – – (up to now)
 
 
 

Posted by: mk | Jun 12 2026 11:19 utc | 78

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 12th June 2026: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update

Posted by: The Busker | Jun 12 2026 11:46 utc | 80

Russia can now win only by going nuclear.
Posted by: Simon | Jun 12 2026 11:45 utc | 81
 
That’s nonsense; all this talk of nuclear weapons is really just the lowest form of barroom banter from the intellectually challenged.
With its new weapons (Burewestnik, SARMAT, Oreschnik, Zirkon), Russia no longer has any need for nuclear weapons.

Posted by: smartfox | Jun 12 2026 11:59 utc | 82

16 bridges over the Dnieper remain intact, where hundreds of trucks and trains loaded with weapons and supplies for the Ukrainian army pass daily.

Yhe dnieper bridges.  Let’s briefly cover 2 important bridges that have come under sustained attacks.
 
1. The bridge by kherson https://maps.app.goo.gl/buU9CiEiJSKT89WV7?g_st=ac
When Russia had kherson ukraine attacked this bridge with a lot of himars.  It took dozens of hits before there was too many holes to drive by.  Russia got spooked though and retreated across the river as part of the 2022 space for time trade.
Notably after withdrawing ukraine sustained an offensive for several months with a small beach head using boats to get supplies across.  Boats you’ll note don’t use bridges and carry a lot .
2. https://maps.app.goo.gl/b44cY7aV64rZoFez7?g_st=ac
This railway bridge funnels supplies sent through Romania.  Russia has hit this one repeatedly and as far as I know its still operational. 
 
The takeaway.  Bridges are built incredibly robust, some of these bridges are on top of hydroelectric dams as well.  You have to calculate how many tons of explosives you need and then check how many cruise missles you need to carry it.
 
Then you have to calculate air defense losses and how quickly the bridges can be repaired, and then calculate how barges can replace some of the tonnage that was going over.
Then you have to see if those missles, assuming you even have enough, are better spent attacking the weapon deliveries themselves in a warehouse.   I’ve seen plenty of spectacular warehouse fires with secondary explosion videos so I know that can be done.
 
Anyways, better get cracking on those numbers, its cool how intuition can collide with the numbers.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 12 2026 13:29 utc | 84

It’s difficult to follow the saga of US backed and led former state of Ukraine almost 5 years later. Russia seems to have accepted it’s role as chronic complainer and punching bag. The deterrent factor is squandered. 

Posted by: chunga | Jun 12 2026 13:46 utc | 86

Pubblicato da: Neofeudalfuture | 12 giu 2026 13:29 utc | 88
No one says it’s easy.
1. It’s easier to hit a truck traveling at 80 km/h or a barge traveling at 19 km/h.
And how many trucks can transit in 24 hours and how many barges or boats in the same time frame?
The trucks arrive at their destination, while the barges must be loaded and unloaded on the river banks, a long and complicated operation.
2. So far, there are no reports that the Ukrainian army has major supply problems, except in cases where weapons and food are sold on the black market.
3. Who knows why the Russian army had to confront the Ukrainian fortifications head-on and today, inexplicably, decided to bypass them and take them from behind.
4. By now, even the stones know that the deep-sea attacks on Russian territory are entirely the work of NATO and authorized, if not directed, by the US.
5. Has there been or will there be an Iranian-style Russian response, or will they just pretend not to know, as they have done unt
il now?

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 12 2026 13:59 utc | 88

No one says it’s easy.
1. It’s easier to hit a truck traveling at 80 km/h or a barge traveling at 19 km/h.
And how many trucks can transit in 24 hours and how many barges or boats in the same time frame?
The trucks arrive at their destination, while the barges must be loaded and unloaded on the river banks, a long and complicated operation.

Ill give you a spoiler on the numbers.   Russia doesn’t have enough long range weaponry to bring down all the major bridges, and repairs and workarounds, like barges, nullify the damage inflicted.  Ukrainian air defense shouldn’t be underestimated either if they know Russia will keep attacking the same spot they will take some missles down further complicating the effort.
Its not just “not easy”  its all but impossible. Then opportunity cost of throwing away missles when they could’ve made an impact elsewhere is critically important. Resources aren’t infinite they must be spent judiciously.
 
 

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 12 2026 14:11 utc | 90

Pubblicato da: Neofeudalfuture | 12 giu 2026 14:11 utc | 94
There are glide bombs of considerable size that can replace missiles,
but still, we must acknowledge that even the Russian army has its limitations.
Perhaps they should take lessons from the Iranians, who, with fewer resources, have crippled the Americans and their watchdog Israel in just a few weeks.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 12 2026 14:23 utc | 92

Today is Russia Day and Putin is holding a meeting in the Kremlin with military personnel participating in a special military operation. The Russian transcript isn’t complete yet and currently ends with Putin saying this:
 

I would like to listen to you, to listen to your assessments events, your wishes about what and how to do additionally to ensure that the task is solved reliably, efficiently, with a minimum of damage to us and with maximum effect. And I ask you without any shyness, calmly, in such a friendly, working mode to pose any questions, that you consider important and which, in your opinion, are ripe and would require decisions….
 
And I will be happy to hear your opinion, your assessments of what is happening and how, and what, in your opinion, should be done to so that the tasks are solved in an even clearer, more understandable way and with the maximum for the Motherland.

 
Judging from the published images, those present are younger officers, “the commanders of various subdivisions – brigades, divisions, armies, battalions,” as Putin says. The meeting took place after the annual ceremony for the Presentation of medals of the Hero of Labor and State Prizes of the Russian Federation. I’m very curious to read what suggestions the line officers provide and the questions they ask along with Putin’s answers. 
 

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 12 2026 14:36 utc | 94

There are glide bombs of considerable size that can replace missiles,
but still, we must acknowledge that even the Russian army has its limitations

Glide bombs would be ideal for this task but Russian planes would have run into air defense zones like crazy due to short range. No i think this needs a long range precision missle, and thats where I dont see them best being used to demolish concrete.  The information above seems to figure 6000 to 8000kg of explosives per span to bring down a bridge which does seem doable, but I think he means exactly precise hits like within a few meters and the kh22 missle has a CEP of around a hundred meters.  
A near miss could just mean blowing up fishes in the river while a CEP of a 100m on a warehouse filled with explosives will still do something.
Its a catch22 you need to get closer to demolish them, and you want to demolish them so you can get closer.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 12 2026 14:52 utc | 96

RUAF has reportedly taken Osykove, NW of Konstantinovka, between Konstantinovka and Druzhivka. Events In Ukraine wrote this in his latest article.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 12 2026 15:17 utc | 98

It took four years for Putin to allow his army to bomb the supply lines coming from the real managers of the ongoing war against Russia. Because it is a war, even if it’s hidden behind a finger, Ukraine is the usual expendable colony for the Anglo-Americans.Today, explosions were recorded across almost all of Crimea. Who knows who directed the operations, given that American and 
Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 11 2026 18:44 utc | 26
 
Putin isn’t POTUS with the power to fight undeclared wars wherever he wants.
 
Russia is a country that follows the rule of law and according to the Russian constitution it’s the Duma that has war powers not the president. Putin has a great deal of influence over the Duma however it’s the Duma that makes the laws and sets the ROE the Russian military has to follow not Putin. The western media likes to put a face to governments … especially the ones they don’t like. Putin is called a dictator because he keeps getting re-elected however his dictatorial powers don’t come close to the American POTUS.
 
If the Duma to pass a law changing the ROE for the Ukraine conflict then Putin can order Russia’s military to engage in whatever way the Duma has permitted. You have to pay attention to the details … the operation in Ukraine was called an SMO because the Russian constitution doesn’t allow the Russian military to operate outside Russia’s borders however the Duma can make a special case that allows the Russian military to operate outside of Russia … which was the SMO.
 
That being said I do believe the Russians have made major changes to the ROE however the defence of Russia against NATO aggression across their entire border has to come first. That’s the priority and NATO is a nuclear armed force 10X Russia’s size. The war in Ukraine is secondary to that primary task. You can argue that these attacks on Russia through Ukraine warrant an active defence against NATO however you and I don’t know how much of the Russian military has to defend the Arctic and Pacific borders or how much of their strike weapons have to be held in reserve in case NATO strikes. Imagine how much of Russian air defences and EW are tied up against the never ending probing the USAF and NATO does across the Baltic, Arctic and pacific borders. Do you move those forces to the south to defend against Ukrainian drones leaving yourself open to nuclear decapitation? Do you use the Iskander and kinzhal missiles reserved to strike NATO Command bunkers and airbases on Ukraine or wait until you have produced surplus? Russia punches above it’s weight but it  doesn’t have a magic missile tree that allows them unlimited worldwide action.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jun 12 2026 16:01 utc | 100